Q#1: How to answer the question asked about our personality traits in Interview? Best: conscientious, trustworthy and self-reliant. Worst: intense, competitive, perfectionist. It is a common question in Interview especially with Psychologists’ Panel. When they ask you to describe your three best and worst personality traits, watch out that interviewers are increasingly savvy about evasions of the second part of …
Read More »Vocabulary In News
confounded: (adj.) confused, befuddled, perplexed PPP is confounded after PML-N victory in by-polls. swansong: (n) a final performance or effort He has decided to make this tour his swansong. fester: (v) intensify, aggravate, blister Political interference has festered power woes in Pakistan. stalemate: (n) deadlock, standoff, impasse Syrian civil war came at a stalemate as Assad said that he won’t …
Read More »In Conversation with Amna Rafique, PAS, 51st CSS-2011
‘The Harder you Work, the Luckier you are’ One needs to be careful to select right topic for essay and then understanding the requirements of examiner along with providing solid arguments. Jahangir’s World Times: Kindly tell us about your educational background and achievements in detail? Amna Rafique: I have done Msc Mass Communication from National University of Modern Languages (NUML) …
Read More »Delhi Sinister: An Eye-Opener for Pakistan
The case of the Indian rape victim, Miss Jayoti Singh Pandey, is an eye-opener. This highly despicable and condemnable incident has raised serious questions about the political leadership, the structure of policing, the law and order situation, moral values and the place of women in society. In democratic societies, human rights are discussed at length, morality is valued, and democracy …
Read More »Discrimination in, to and Through Education
The education system of a country carries paramount importance because its progress entirely depends on education. The better the education system, the more progress a nation will make. The first Education Conference was held in 1947 as per the directives of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The Father of the Nation provided basic guidelines for future development …
Read More »India and Pakistan: Continued Conflict or Cooperation?
By Stanley Wolpert, Berkeley Year 2010 University of California Press PP. 126, Price Rs 1,695. In India and Pakistan: Continued Conflict or Cooperation? Stanley Wolpert, an expert on modern political history of Pakistan and India, sets out to explore the reasons which explain the continuing conflicts between the two countries. The task is great with a complex web of historical, …
Read More »Pakistan is Rich in Natural Resources but Poor in their Management.
“Life without conservation of natural resources would be like a deaf listening to music or a blind enjoying dance performance. Natural resources affect the life of a modern man, directly or indirectly. The impact is quite visible at consumer level, industry level and means of transportation and so on. No one can deny the fact that natural resources in …
Read More »The Winter of the World II
Through conscious efforts at the global level, the world can witness a flourishing spring after overcoming the present dreary winter. Indeed, mankind needs an unprecedented warmth and love to counter and then come out of this time of winter and bring about a spring of love and prosperity for people. 1. Introduction 2. Unprecedented crises faced by humanity a. Economic …
Read More »A Brief History of Election in Pakistan
In the history of Pakistan, the first direct elections to the national and provincial assemblies were held in 1970. The intelligence agencies reported to General Yahya Khan that no party would get majority in parliament. At the time of independence, Pakistan was without a constitution. The Government of India Act 1935, was adopted as its interim constitution. The Muslim and …
Read More »2012 Year of Subtle Transformation
As we usher in 2013, some of the key events of 2012 will be remembered, in all probability, not exactly because of what happened, but because of the subtle transforming events that sowed the seeds for some of the more significant transformations of our times. The most important events were not those that will find place in record books, but …
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